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- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
joining HBS. Audrey Atencio (MBA 2024, Section G), Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Piva Capital Piva is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm ($500mm AUM) investing in visionary entrepreneurs who are solving the world's critical problems in the industrial and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Recent book: The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership Journey Chair: Organizational Behavior Unit Intrigued by: "Emotional intelligence. Leaders have the emotional capacity to overcome doubt, to have View Details
Keywords: Management
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
included varies by source and will change over time In the U.S., 17% of homes have an electric heat pump installed. In the South – in states such as North Carolina and Alabama – this number is above 40% [1]. It is clear that electric heat... View Details
- Web
Finance - Faculty & Research
Article Expectations of Returns and Expected Returns By: Robin Greenwood and Andrei Shleifer We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from six data sources between 1963 and 2011. The six measures of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Feedback
mills. The Why: Of the 110 million tons of food waste generated annually in the United States, 75 percent ends up in landfills or incinerators, making it a leading source of CO2 emissions (10 percent of greenhouse gasses can be attributed... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
definition that extends the concept beyond the traditional binary retain/not retain view of retention. We discuss a variety of metrics to measure and monitor retention. We present an integrated framework for managing retention that leverages emerging opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2024
- Case
InfraCredit and the Project Inception Facility
By: John Macomber, Namrata Arora and Maagatha Kalavadakken
Around the world, large infrastructure projects are frequently stymied by the high cost and high uncertainty of the project inception phase: the research and engineering and planning prior to financial close and start of construction. Could there be a new kind of... View Details
Keywords: Infrastructure; Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Cost; Cash Flow; Capital; Assets; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Insurance; Energy; Product Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Credit; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Africa; Nigeria
- Web
HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
to the Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy Gordon Jones , President, College of Western Idaho (CWI) Building the workforce is critical to scaling climate ventures, to valuation, and to public uptake of climate technologies both... View Details
- September 2015
- Case
Eco7: Launching a New Motor Oil
By: John Quelch and Sunru Yong
Aaron Jonnerson, vice president of marketing at the automotive division of Avellin, must make marketing mix decisions for the launch of Eco7, a new environmentally-friendly motor oil. The company's performance has been mediocre, shareholder pressure is increasing, and... View Details
Keywords: Distribution Channels; Environmental Sustainability; Product Launch; Transportation; Energy Sources; Auto Industry
Quelch, John, and Sunru Yong. "Eco7: Launching a New Motor Oil." Harvard Business School Brief Case 916-507, September 2015.
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
glass, paper, and metal for recycling, as she points out; one day textiles will be just another stream. In the meantime, Looper is investing in tech to innovate its collection and near-infrared sorting processes to improve outcomes, explains Bolon, who previously... View Details
- Web
Health Care - Faculty & Research
using a multivariable linear regression controlling for various covariates. Data Sources and Analytic Sample: The Mayo Clinic of Arizona Emergency Department recorded approximately 50,836 visits, all randomly assigned to physicians during... View Details
- July 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Project Helios: Harvesting the Sun
By: Mark Egan and E. Scott Mayfield
Aware of the impact that modern society was having on the environment, Ashley Telkes had always tried to be cognizant of her own impact on the environment and to take reasonable steps to mitigate her own effects. Having already implemented a number of passive measures... View Details
Egan, Mark, and E. Scott Mayfield. "Project Helios: Harvesting the Sun." Harvard Business School Case 219-009, July 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
- December 2022
- Technical Note
Risks and Opportunities from the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy: A Business Analysis Framework
By: George Serafeim
The transition to a low carbon economy introduces many risks and opportunities for businesses. Risks emerge from regulatory actions, such as carbon taxes and cap and trade systems, technological innovation that develop alternatives for customers making existing... View Details
Keywords: Risk Assessment; Opportunities; Environmental Sustainability; Carbon Footprint; Risk Management; Competitive Dynamics; Business Analysis; Climate Change; Accounting; Finance; Valuation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Technological Innovation; Transition; Product Positioning; Renewable Energy; Analysis
Serafeim, George. "Risks and Opportunities from the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy: A Business Analysis Framework." Harvard Business School Technical Note 123-014, December 2022.
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Rubinstein Business Track Runner-Up Qweek is a fully automatic cloud solution to workforce optimization and management. Qweek helps business achieve significant savings by breaking traditional rigid shift scheduling and using dynamic shifts to align workforce supply... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
along lines of race, class, and geography.”[2] Policy Summary The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022Contains about $40 billion in benefits for environmental justice.[3] Three main areas of effect (identified by Senate Democrats) [4]Reduce legacy pollution; access to clean... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
It assessed the risk of pandemics at 11 percent, below both a global energy shortage (19 percent) and labor shortages (17 percent). The restaurant leaders were asked, given this risk likelihood, should restaurants have been better... View Details
- Web
Events - Business History
"Country Capitalism" Organized by Geoff Jones and Kwelina Thompson Seminar meets on Zoom. Sep 25 25 Sep 2023 Business History Seminar: Business, Society, and the Environment Victor Seow (Harvard University), "Carbon Technocracy: Energy... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
net-zero emissions by 2040. In the interim, we are targeting absolute GHG reductions of more than 40 percent by 2030. From the way we source our crops to the energy we use in creating and distributing our... View Details